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The Value of the Family

individual family member are considered within this context (Friedman, Bowden and Jones 37). In analyzing the various theories th...

Baltimore Child Protective Services

specific, desired goals, by employing combination of efforts that support, direct and utilize authority (DHR). The CPS case worker...

Nursing Shortage & Patient Safety

established that nurses are often involved in the "timely identification of complications," which, if acted upon swiftly, prevent ...

Care Management and the Empowerment of Independent Living

More importantly, the framework as it developed with cooperation between different authorities under way that services needed to b...

Now Night Nurses on an Intensive Care Unit

of this decision. Ecological theory is an attempt to bring in many different influences in order to understand how a society ...

Patient’s Possessions & Cultural Competency

arts, beliefs, values, customs, lifeways and all other products of human work and thought..." (Purnell, 2005, p. 7). It is the eth...

Formulating Nursing Theory

verifies old knowledge (Wilkerson, 1998). As this suggests, the continuation of scholarly advances in the development of nursing t...

Statistics in Surgical ICU

within institutions where manual charting of ventilators settings is performed well, "automatic data collection can eliminate dela...

Iatrogenic Infection

This 14 page paper looks at the issue of iatrogenic infection and how a hospital may undertake an innovation to reduce the occurre...

Refusal of Palliative Care/Bioethics

this incident may have contributed to her divorce. It is also true that her mother has had a problem with alcoholism for over twen...

Starting a Nursery in Jeddah

and tuition for the older children. The plan will require a new building that will be specifically designed for its purpose aimed ...

Polarity Management

are problems, the use of critical thinking models or other problem solving tool will help to find an effective resolution. The pro...

The Importance of Hope in Palliative Care

are fatigued often have trouble dealing successfully with their illness. In this article Benzein and Berg note that "Hope, hopeles...

Improving Management at Shannondale

economic positions (McGinn and Murr, 2006). All of this development in the past several years has led to a restatement of Shannon...

Organisational Culture; A Case Study

and ever changing (Trice and Beyer, 1993). Organisational culture embodies what is and is not accepted within an organisation in t...

Nursing Care for Hypertension

defined as a systolic blood pressure of greater than or equal to 140 mm/Hg) was linked most commonly to individuals whoa re overwe...

The Psychological Impact of Separation from their Parents on Foster Children

happening (Simms, Dubowitz and Szilagyi, 2000). Even though each case if different, there are several common reactions when chil...

Chronic Kidney Disease & HP 2010

this condition is unknown (CKD, 2005). The challenge facing this focus area of HP 2010 is to establish effective programs that wil...

Mexican-American Women/Access to Care

A 5 page research paper. A previous research paper on this topic (khmexamh) discussed mentally ill homeless Mexican American women...

MEDICAL CARE, HIPPA REGULATIONS, COBRA AND OTHER CHALLENGES

HIPAA is actually protecting patients privacy and confidentiality (McBride, 2008). Granted, the respondents were of a particular s...

Patients’ Bill of Rights

is designed to ensure that "Patients have access to needed care" and that healthcare providers are "free to practice medicine with...

Nursing and Self-Care

and respond to patient authentically as individuals in the here-and-now moment may be the best way to prepare safe and effective c...

Caring and the Nurse Practitioner

now regarded as a crucial and defining component of nursing, as caring defines "nursings unique area of practice and provides dire...

Self-Care Task Analysis

reflecting exactly what exceptional children go through in the classroom. The first step in making a peanut butter and jelly sand...

Nursing Leadership, Advocacy & Responsibilities

Leadership and management while related are two distinctively different concepts. Leadership can be discerned from simply manageme...

Postpartum Doula Care

experience" in previous eras (Abramson, 2004, p. 34). This doula program recruits doulas from the community being served. The mode...

Diabetes in Adolescence

between cases at the time of diagnosis (Newmark and Anhalt, 2007). Type 1 diabetes is typically due to a "lack of insulin producti...

Treating Osteoporosis

and typically occurs by the time a person reaches their 70s. In the U.S., roughly 1.5 million fractures are caused by osteoporosis...

On-Site Childcare Programs: The Work Life Benefits

work and the demands of ones personal life is, many researchers say, critical to the establishment and maintenance of a healthy li...

Diabetes Self-Management - Hispanic Patients

has always been about the development of autonomy, equality, social justice and democracy" (Mezirow, 1999). The transformative app...